SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Taberon Honie, who was sentenced to death for the violent killing of his ex-girlfriend's mother, Claudia Benn, is appearing before the Utah Board of Pardons & Parole over a two ...

In simple terms, a commutation reduces a criminal penalty. This may include shortening a prison sentence or replacing a death sentence with life imprisonment. Unlike a pardon, which forgives a crime ...

UPDATE (June 13, 2024, 6:06 p.m. ET): President Joe Biden said Thursday that he won’t commute his son Hunter Biden’s sentence. I confess that I hadn’t considered the possibility of a Hunter Biden ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — The Board of Pardons and Parole denied death row inmate Ralph Menzies' commutation petition. Menzies, convicted of brutally murdering 26-year-old Maurine Hunsaker in 1986, is ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Over recent months, pardons, clemency, and commutation have been hot-button topics when discussing politics and law, and they will likely continue to be in the future. In ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — On Monday, the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board heard a case by Jerome Ersland in his plea to get out of prison early. He’s convicted of murdering a teenager back in 2009 after ...

Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), who faces more than seven years behind bars after pleading guilty to wire fraud and identity theft, revealed this week that he will be seeking clemency from ...

Governor Charlie Baker on Wednesday approved commutation requests for two men serving life sentences for murder in what attorneys called a “groundbreaking” act of mercy not seen in Massachusetts in a ...

For the second time in as many weeks, the Governor's Council reviewed a request to commute the life in prison sentence of a man convicted of murder. William Allen's commutation petition has been ...